“It took a lot more of my time than I thought it would, and we never really got it off the ground,” Satterlee said. “Doing this was harder than I expected.”

Satterlee’s saga is hardly unique: More than 60 percent of the 1,091 super PACs ever created have never raised a dime.

In fact, more than 100 super PACs have closed shop in 2012, 59 this month alone, the Sunlight Foundation reports.

They’re the “un-super PACs,” often born from political idealism and good intentions but doomed to virtual anonymity or irrelevancy for one reason or another. Even kitschy or eye-catching names — such as Dogs Against Romney, Joe Six PAC, Eradicate National Debt and the Slam Dunks, Fireworks and Eagles Super PAC — haven’t helped much.

Life is good on the other side of the spectrum, where groups such as Restore Our Future, which raised $132 million to help Mitt Romney, or the pro-Barack Obama Priorities USA Action ($63 million), took advantage of a 2010 federal court decision that essentially created super PACs and gave the power to raise and spend unlimited sums.

But those are the anomalies: Fewer than one in 10 super PACs have raised at least $100,000, according to the latest federal records. Only 59 have raised more than $1 million.

That said, super PACs have collectively generated more than $750 million as of their last federal reports — a number that will certainly increase by year’s end.

Robert Rosenfeld of Ohio, for his part, wasn’t exactly being serious when he formed the Fat Old Man PAC.

Using one of his daughters’ nicknames for him, Rosenfeld says he created the super PAC mainly to “get my three kids a little more interested in the election.”

He didn’t raise a dime but said he had some fun and learned, if nothing else, that filing paperwork to form a super PAC is a heck of a lot easier than filing tax returns for charitable organizations, which is part of his day job.

Remy Maisel raised $25 from one donor during the more than six months she’s run Penn Staters for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, a super PAC inspired by comedian Stephen Colbert, who sold a do-it-yourself kit for forming super PACs as part of a yearlong gag lambasting the influence of money in politics. Maisel added $50 from her own pocketbook, as well.

Colbert’s satirical super PAC — Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow — raised about $1.25 million, only to have Colbert to shut it down this month and donate the remaining $774,000 to a secretive nonprofit organization he set up.